1 The Crazy Episodes of my Life

There was a girl name Sally. She's18 years old and living with her parents, they are not rich and they are just living in a simple house. One beautiful Monday morning, as she used to do, she wakes up early and having a breakfast with her dad in the kitchen. She didn't knew that her whole life will change in that day. While they are quietly enjoying their breakfast with her dad, they are suddenly interrupted with a persistent knocking sounds at their door followed by these words:

" Police, Open the Door"

Her dad rushed to the door and opened it. There are two police officers standing and one Police officer said:

" We are looking for Sally Tyler, is she living here?

Sally said to herself:

" Oh My Gosh! is this because I skipped school again the other day? Oh men the principal was not joking when he told me he'd take care of my case seriously? "

"Yes it's me and I live in here ", she answered

The police answered:

" We are sorry to inform you that your dad passed away last night, we found a letter with your name and your address and a pair of keys of his house. We are deeply sorry for your loss miss."

"Sorry, what? forgive me officers but you must be mistaken. My dad is right here standing up behind me and actually he is the one who just opened the door for you," she said.

She looked at her dad and his face tuning into red, and asked herself:

" is he going to die today too?"

" Thanks a lot for letting us know officers have a good day," his dad replied to the police officers and hurried went close the door. She knew that it is the very specific moment, that there's something wrong.

" Sweetie, we need to talk," her dad told her.

" Fine dad, what was that?" she replied

"Maybe we should wait your mother to come back," her dad replied

Sally can't wait any longer, so she pushed her dad to tell her now what was going on. She felt curious of what's happening, so she's asking herself:

" What secret were they hiding to me?"

Then it happened! After almost 18 years of existence, his dad revealed to her the big secret. She Was Adopted! He explained it to her and say sorry.

"Were sorry for not telling the truth sweetie," her dad said.

Sally was totally shocked about the news. She couldn't speak for hours. Her whole life was turned upside down. All those years of her life full of lies and secrets. There are so many questions in her mind.

" OK so I'm adopted and that's a fact now. I know my father is but who is my mother?" she said

Her adoptive mother is now at their house. When she saw them, their faces, she knew already. Her adoptive dad texted her before so she knew. The three of them sat down in silence. Sally started asking questions but they couldn't give her any answers.

"We didn't know who's your birthparents are because we are not close to them, we've just adopted you and for us, you are our daughter and we love you," they said

"Yes, I get it but what I need is answers," she replied

So they decided to off of each other so they could process what just happened to their family. Her parents went on a vacation for a few weeks and Sally just stayed home alone. She couldn't stop thinking about it and after a few days of heavy thoughts she decided to ease her brain off so she find something to do. She loves doing Arts so she decided to paint something. She remembered that her mom had an album of a beautiful pictures that she can paint so she looked for it in their bookshelf when she finally found it, she reach the album and a there is also a box fell on the floor. As it fells, the box opened and it contains a lot of letters!

She read each letter and she noticed that it is only came from one person, her true father! She understand quickly what's happening, she said:

" Now I know! My adoptive parents are in touch with my father for years and actually from the beginning, it means they knew the whole time who my real father was cause they're exchanging letters with him. They lied to me not because they hide those letters but because when I asked about him. I couldn't take it anymore. What was going to happen to me next?"

So Sally decided to leave their house. She left a note to her parents and she went to her father's house since nobody wanted to tell her the truth.

" I wanted to find it myself!" she said.

Even she felt a little bit scared, she went in her father's house and as she arrived, she was really amazed and shocked what she saw! It is a very big house like a castle. She went inside, it is cold and huge so she felt scared.

" Feels like somebody just died here." she said

She entered a room and it seems like it is an office. The room is so messy, tons of papers and documents are scattered in the floor. She went every room of the house and entered another room that looks like an office again. But she couldn't believe what she saw in that room.

" A multiple bags with a millions of cash‼! OH MY GOSH! What dark business was my dad running? Is he a Drug dealer? a cartel leader? O God please help me." Sally said.

She kept in scanning the room and wet on the table. She found a real state documents, but she did not pay attention to it until she saw her name written on it. She reads it and she found out something…

" I was a landlord of this house and with five apartments in the city? OMG am I dreaming?"

Then she found a letters that her father wrote to her adoptive parents. Her father is always asking her adoptive parents if they giving her the money he sent and if they are paying for my studies.

" I never saw those money, not even one time. Ohh another lie added to the list! But where did all those money go? It is in their pockets? Ohhh I can't believe it! I dream to apply for a painting and drawing degree when college application were starting but they just kept telling me that they couldn't afford to pay my tuition?"

Instead of feeling sorry for herself, she decided to see this whole situation as an opportunity for her to behold. She get all the money and went back home. When her parents came back home, she exposed to them the truth, the letters, the lies, the money and everything. They went silent.

" Sweetie, we didn't know how to handle this situations from the beginning. We get tangled in lies over the years."

" But how about the money?" she asked curiously.

" We wanted to keep the money for your 18th Birthday, but because we got caught up with the depts. over the past few years, we didn't have a choice but to use." her father answered coldly

" Do you know anything about my mother at least? and please don't lie to me this time." Sally answered

She asked one time but they ignored.

" We didn't know anything about her," her mom answered

Any of their word was not matter anymore. So she decided to left again but this time, for good, she packed all her things up and moved to the other city where her dream drawing and painting college was with all the money that her father left her.

" With this money, I can afford my college tuition and even rent a student residence or apartment. A new life, a new beginning was starting for me. Finally! I can do what I wished for so many years, drawing and painting were my escape and going to college. It will really helps me a lot to cope with all the crazy things happened to me back then." Sally said

Months passed and she's enjoying her drawing class. It's finally the final exam of the semester, they had to submit a collaboration work with one of their classmates. She didn't know a lot of people in her class.

"Seems like everyone already have a friends here."

She had a trouble in communicating others so she just picked her first classmate that was sitting next to her. A boy who also seemed like confused.

" Are you interested in joining me for the collaboration work?" she asked

" I don't know, do you know how to draw well?" he asked her

" Well I'm here so I guess I'd know how to use a pencil a bit." Sally replied

" Ok, let's meet at the library after class." the boy replied.

For Sally, it is a date, she internally thought. Lending in wasn't complicated after all. They meet at the library after class.

" This boy wasn't a talker, he just sat down and… ohhhh this is so… ohhh I don't know." Sally said to herself

The boy just sat down and waiting for Sally to talk and take the lead.

" Well at least he was pretty cute, so things were definitely going to be interesting." Sally said again to herself

As she was getting drawing sheets out of her bag, some of her father's real state documents that she always carried fell in the ground. The boy helped Sally gather the papers up but he completely freeze for a minute and keep staring at the documents.

" Where did you get those papers?" he asked

" Well boy, you're not a talker but you're pretty curious. Those papers are private." she told him

" No, no wait, how do you know this guy, the one with his name on the paper?" he asked

" This guy was my father, he passed away a few months ago, why?." she replied

The boy totally shocked. and just when the boy tell all the story about her, it's like a boomerang, it all came back.

" The new episodes of my crazy life story was about to happen. Long story short, it turns out that my father is also his father. I basically found that I had a brother on a regular weeknight in the library and yes, no need to mention it again, a fact that I had a crush on him before. I need to erase this idea out of my mind right now." Sally said to herself

She also find out that his brother was also adopted by another family. But unlike her, he had the chance to see and meet their father. Couple of times before their father's death, actually, her brother helped their father with all those administrative and real state papers. He also knew her existence before, cause their father had told him about her so their father could put Sally's name on some of the documents.

" And you never wanted to find me?" Sally asked to him

" I did want too, I just didn't know how. He just gave me your name." he answered

" Crazy huh, that I had to cross the whole country to finally learn that I had a brother." she said to herself

They talked and bonded for few days after that we had so many things to share and discover about each other. But the more they talked the more Sally felt like there's something wrong or at least something that she didn't know and his brother didn't told her yet. Every time Sally mentioned their birth mother, who is she, and where she could might be, he was elusive, he was always trying to move on to another subject.

" that was weird. how don't you want to know about your birth mother after all these years." Sally told herself

One day, Sally was just tired of it and asked her brother…

" Do you know something about your mother? or do we at least have the same mother? she asked

" Yes, we do." he simply answered.

After hours of trying, Sally was finally dragged out some answers. It turns out that the only thing he knew was that their mother was living in the same city as they.

" Our birth mother was right here next to us! We have to go find her." Sally keep repeating to her brother

She couldn't stop moving around. She was so very exited but her brother wasn't as exited as her.

" Was he scared to find out another secret? facing another reaction? Sally asked herself

She'd totally get it but she was reaching a point back then where she was like.

" Ok, I've seen enough in the past few months, I can handle one more thing, at least this time I was in control." Sally said to herself

So Sally kept trying to convince her brother. It wasn't easy for her but after a few weeks of negotiation, her brother finally accepted to go and try to see their mother during this period of time. But also, Sally investigated a lot. After nights of searching, she finally found their mother's address. She was living in one in the poorest neighborhoods in the city. So Sally and her brother went in that place. They stayed in the car for hours waiting to see what their mother looked like, but Sally was getting impatient.

" Okay, come on, let's go. We didn't drive this far just to stay in the car and give up." Sally told him

They knocked at the door as their mother opened the door. She stared at them for a few seconds. Sally guessed that she knew them, cause she know that the mother instinct never fails.

" Are you?" their mom asked them

" Yes we are mom! her brother quickly answered

She let them in and sat down in the living room. They talked for hours and Sally don't even remember all the things they said. After a long talk, they finally asked why did she abandoned them, why did she never try to find them.

" Your father left me after you was born Sally, when he disappeared with the two of you, I was devastated for years, I tried to find you, as the police gave up to your case after just few months of investigation.

Their mother thought that all those times, Sally and his brother was with their father, growing up with him by his side and that one day Sally and her brother would come back. She had no idea that Sally and her brother was adopted by two different families. They are all shocked.

After this meeting, Sally and her brother made a decision that they will now live together in their father's house, since it is quite big. Sally and her brother were both moved out of the students residence to live together with their mother. They are all separated in so many years, but now, they have more time to enjoy being together as family. Just the three of them as a family. Sally and her brother use the money that their father left them for their own business and as years passed they got married and have their own happy family with their mother.

" I am so happy for what I have right now, after a years living with lies and secrets, I've finally found the answers of my questions. Now I'm living happily with my Happy Family. I will not request anything anymore." Sally said to herself while looking at her whole family happily together in the beach..

The end!...